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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Premier Bank Platform

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AFinancial technology company Fiserv offers the Premier Bank Platform to banking institutions, providing an environment to integrate data and manage bank operations in a simplified browser-based interface.N/A

    Symitar

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AJack Henry's Credit Union Core Platform, Symitar, is presented as an ecosystem for credit unions that helps them to grow membership. It aims to give members an intuitive experience across all channels with a core platform that is dynamic, comprehensive, scalable, and customizable. And the use can create enhancements, develop interfaces to third-party systems, and decide whether the cloud or in-house hosting is right for the organization.N/A
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    Premier Bank PlatformSymitar
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Premier Bank PlatformSymitar
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    User Testimonials
    Premier Bank PlatformSymitar
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    Fiserv
    Premier Bank Platform is well suited for a banking environment, it wouldn't really make sense to use it in any other kind of environment. We are a medium sized bank who outsources Platform and it suits us fairly well. They are some issues with Fiserv from time to time but overall Platform allows us to complete our banking duties quickly and with relative ease. Fiserv takes care of updating all aspects of Platform for us so from an IT perspective it saves us a lot of headaches. Most end users are satisfied with Platform, the only grumbling you'll typically hear about is when the service is unavailable.
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    Jack Henry & Associates
    The system is quick and easy to use for our front-line staff allowing them to serve our members extremely fast. Additional functionality n some modules would allow us to move off some third party vendors and do it within the existing system.
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    Pros
    Fiserv
    • Because the Premier Bank Platform is developed by Fiserv, a very large company, there are considerable resources to continue to develop Premier and roll out new solutions.
    • It holds most all of our customer data in one central location and transfers that data to other Fiserv apps fairly well.
    • It is fairly intuitive and most users pick up on it quickly.
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    Jack Henry & Associates
    • quick and easy access to member accounts.
    • integrations with 3rd party vendors to enhance our member service experience.
    • online, mobile banking and shared branching integration allowing us to serve our members anywhere in the world.
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    Cons
    Fiserv
    • The software itself is currently a bit dated, but it will be overhauled here sometime in 2019.
    • We outsource the platform and sometime the connections to Fiserv are not reliable which cause the platform to be unusable.
    • Fiserv has several different platforms and Premier seems to be the most dated of the bunch, again that appears to be changing in 2019 but in the interim it still remains an issue
    • The customer support can sometimes be lacking when facing issues with the platform, they will tell you they'll fix it later but give no time frames as to when that might be.
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    Jack Henry & Associates
    • Business services modules do have everything we would like.
    • Collections modules do not have everything we would like.
    • A way to allow users to update their software without them having to have local administrative rights.
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    Return on Investment
    Fiserv
    • Platform is absolutely critical to our daily bank operations. It's a bit on the expensive side to setup and maintain but in the end worth the money because of the complete coverage it provides in daily business functions.
    • There are several competitors to Platform but Premier is what our bank has used for many years, even before it's Fiserv acquisition, and what many employees are comfortable with. A switch would involve a massive investment in retraining.
    • A negative impact can be on when there are outages or mishaps on Fiserv's side. Fiserv has a tendency to not compensate you even when they should be obligated to. They seem to play the outlast you game where they hope you will give up and stop asking.
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    Jack Henry & Associates
    • It has allowed us to grow from a less than 500 million dollar in asset size credit union to a 2 billion dollar is asset size credit union over the past 20 years.
    • Growth is asset size achieved without sacrificing member service.
    • With our focus on member service and the usage of the system, we have seen continuous growth in our membership every year.
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